The Cook Up 002: Intellectual Humility
Dec 16, 2020 9:41 pm
Intellectual Humility
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This week I'm sharing ideas on intellectual humility, thinking for yourself, OnlyFans, and The Halo Top Diet.
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Interesting Reads
Intellectual Humility: The Ultimate Guide To This Timeless Virtue
“Intellectual Humility is one of the most fascinating fields of study in current psychology, because it helps us understand how to get better at both of these things—working together and thinking differently...The more intellectual humility we have, the better we can work with others who aren’t like us, the more innovative problem solvers we can be, and the better people we can become.”
Is Social Media Killing Intellectual Humility?
“But in the social media age, is Socrates—who died proclaiming, “I know nothing except the fact of my own ignorance”—still the liberal ideal? Or has the internet ecosystem destroyed intellectual humility by rewarding echo chambers, public commitments, and takedowns over earnest truth-seeking and discovery?”
“Independent-mindedness seems to be more a matter of nature than nurture. Which means if you pick the wrong type of work, you're going to be unhappy. If you're naturally independent-minded, you're going to find it frustrating to be a middle manager. And if you're naturally conventional-minded, you're going to be sailing into a headwind if you try to do original research.”
OnlyFans Is a Billion-Dollar Media Giant Hiding in Plain Sight
“The company has 85 million users, upward of 1 million creators, and will generate more than $2 billion in sales this year, of which it keeps about 20%. That puts the site on track for $400 million in annual net sales — dwarfing Patreon, a platform devoted to helping creative types monetize their work, which is valued at more than $1.2 billion.”
OnlyFans Grew Faster Than Any Other Creator Platform This Year
Learning
“AI is already ubiquitous in your day-to-day life, ranking blue links on Google searches, blocking spam from your work inbox, providing your boss with marketing and sales leads, suggesting Amazon products and Netflix shows, sorting Facebook and TikTok feeds, and navigating you from📍A to📍B. That’s just the tip of the iceberg.
Now that we have your attention, we’ll turn down the galaxy-brain knob a bit. This guide provides the overview of what you need to know about AI today. No more, no less.”
Tools and Resources
Seoasked.com archive all Googlers tweets & answers about SEO so you can easily share them back with your team or client.
Fun Stuff
“For ten days, I would do what surely a number of homo sapiens (primarily World of Warcraft addicts) had done before—but never in the name of research. (And certainly never with hopes of getting skinnier.) I’d be eating nothing but ice cream.”
Harry Potter vs Luke Skywalker. Epic Rap Battles Of History
Quote of the Week
“Faith in the endgame helps you live through the months or years of buildup.”
— Jim Collins
End
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